People's Library - Jinminbunko

Japanese: 人民文庫 - じんみんぶんこ

A literary magazine. First published in March 1936 (Showa 11), it ceased publication in January 1938. It had a total of 26 issues, including two special issues. Published by Jinmin Bunkosha. The colophon states that the editor and publisher was Honjo Mutsuo, but in reality it was presided over by Takeda Rintaro. It argued for the development of realism with a focus on the "spirit of prose" in opposition to the current of fascism after the collapse of proletarian literature, and especially in the literary world, the Japanese nationalistic trend of the Bungei Konwakai and the Japanese Romantic School, but after the war it was seen, together with the Japanese Romantic School, as "two branches from the same tree of conversion" (Takami Jun).

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

文芸雑誌。1936年(昭和11)3月創刊，38年1月廃刊。臨時増刊2冊を含み通巻26冊。人民文庫社発行。奥付の編集発行人は本庄陸男（むつお），実質的には武田麟太郎が主宰。プロレタリア文学崩壊後のファシズムの気流と，とりわけ文壇的には文芸懇話会や日本浪曼派の日本主義的風潮に抗して〈散文精神〉を主軸にリアリズムの発展を主張したが，戦後は，日本浪曼派とともに〈転向といふ一つの木から出た二つの枝〉(高見順)という見方をされた。

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